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Nicole ErwinIt’s harvest time and a semi full of corn just pulled onto the scales at Seven Springs Farm in Cadiz, Kentucky. On the scale, the analytics work begins: moisture content, weight, production rates, and more are all recorded. This is just one truck and many more will follow with much more to be stored and later sold for ethanol production. Just one of the farm’s bins can hold as many as 350,000 bushels, or 16.8 million pounds. These trucks of corn are just one bite of a mouthful of big data that this local farm’s server can no longer swallow. As the farm’s production and technology manager, it’s Nick Woodruff’s job to keep track of it all. “The way things communicate now and interact has changed a lot in the last couple years,” Woodruff said. So has the size of the farm: what started at just 2000 acres covers 36,000 today. When the farm was smaller and “clouds” still just meant white puffy things in the sky, farm data were stored on site. Now, everything is transmitted to a cloud serverData Farming: How Big Data Is Revolutionizing Big Aghttp://weku.fm/post/data-farming-how-big-data-revolutionizing-big-ag
95589 as http://weku.fmMon, 19 Sep 2016 10:00:00 +0000Data Farming: How Big Data Is Revolutionizing Big AgMarisa HempelThe first of ten regional meetings on the issue of food insecurity in the commonwealth took place Tuesday in Northern Kentucky. The inaugural meeting in Highland Heights established the goals of the Hunger Task Force which was initiated earlier this month to combat what seems to be a growing problem in the Commonwealth. Commissioner of Agriculture Ryan Quarles says the regional meetings will serve the purpose of displaying the need for the task force with statistics from foodbanks as well as developing attainable and measurable methods to fight the hunger inequities. Gary Miles of Kentucky’s Heartland, a foodbank in Elizabethtown serving 42 counties, says the need for programs like this is ever-increasing. He states that 1 in 7 adults and 1 in 5 children do not have sufficient meals in Kentucky. His group, along with other partners from Feeding America, will continue to attend the meetings hoping for progress, “We think that the need is increasing, it seems to be ever increasing; evenSeries of Food Insecurity Meetings Begins in Highland Heightshttp://weku.fm/post/series-food-insecurity-meetings-begins-highland-heights
91652 as http://weku.fmWed, 22 Jun 2016 21:09:53 +0000Series of Food Insecurity Meetings Begins in Highland HeightsJohn HingsbergenA new documentary on Kentucky farming will debut on the states public TV stations next weekend. Coming to Ground is a 90 minute production of a Kentucky-based media production and education organization called Media Working Group. Arts Weekly: KET to air Documentary on Ky Agriculturehttp://weku.fm/post/arts-weekly-ket-air-documentary-ky-agriculture
24914 as http://weku.fmSun, 15 Apr 2012 00:46:05 +0000Arts Weekly: KET to air Documentary on Ky AgricultureMost of the seven candidates running for Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner have one attention getting thing in commonthey support legalizing industrial hemp. WEKUS Ron Smith reports on the growing political support for the once taboo plant. Hemp Back as a Political Issuehttp://weku.fm/post/hemp-back-political-issue
3336 as http://weku.fmWed, 11 May 2011 04:00:59 +0000Hemp Back as a Political Issue